[Bldg-sim] High hours outside throttling range
Joe Huang
joe at drawbdl.com
Wed Mar 4 11:39:42 PST 2009
I don't know how it works in eQuest, but in DOE-2.1E, you can input any
ASSIGNED-CFM to any conditioned zone.
Joe Huang
White Box Technologies
Lam, Linda wrote:
> To All,
>
> I've got a high number of hours outside throttling range for a
> 27-story building in India (40% of hours). It is a VAV with electric
> reheat. Upon inputting 40,000 cfm per floor (25,000 sf), I get down
> to about 3% of hours outside throttling range. However, Trace only
> calls for about 20,000 cfm per floor. I double checked all my load
> inputs across both programs and it seems like occupancy, lights and
> equipment loads match up.
>
> I noticed that most of my unmet cooling load hours occur in my
> internal zones. So I input a system total supply volume of 25,000 cfm
> per floor and also allocated 16,000 cfm to the internal zones. This
> decreased the number of hours outside throttling range to about 4%.
>
> My question is, am I allowed to "allocate" cfm to the internal zones
> like that?
>
> Thanks very much in advance!
> Linda
>
>
>
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